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tlamaniltia.

Headword: 
tlamaniltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to make things be a certain way, to behave in a certain way (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamaniltiā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmɑniltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAMANILTIĀ to make things be a certain way, to behave in a certain way / se portaron (C for third pers. plural preterit) [(1)Bf.10v, (1)Cf.124v]. B specifically marks the vowel of the third syllable long, although it should be short before the suffix –LTIĀ, and C leaves the vowel unmarked for length. caus. TLAMAN(I)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 280–281.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlamaniltia = to govern things (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Personal communication, James Lockhart, in sessions analyzing Huehuetlatolli.

themes: 
Behavior, Personality